Radiohead Are Ahead of Their Time (Yet Again)
By Jeremy Ambers
This is not exactly ‘This Just In’ caliber news, but it’s still pretty interesting. A couple of months ago, Radiohead premiered a new music video for a song called ‘House of Cards’. What makes this so interesting is the fact that they did not use one camera in the filming of the video. Instead, the video utilized two technologies: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. The Geometric Informatics scanning system uses structured light to capture detailed 3-D images at a close proximity. This technology captured performances by singer, Thom Yorke, the female lead and several partygoers.
The Velodyne Lidar system uses multiple lasers to capture larger environments in 3-D. In the case of this particular video, there were 64 lasers, each rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exterior scenes and wide party shots. Here is a ‘Behind the Scenes’ Video on the making of ‘House of Cards’.
Tags: 3-D, 3-D imaging, 3D, behind the scenes, Geometric Informatics, House of Cards, Jeremy Ambers, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Velodyne Lidar